TWO men are to stand trial in early February after pleading guilty to charges of aiding and abetting escaped convict Antonis Prokopiou Kitas. Rodosthenis Christodoulou, 22, and Ioannis Menikou, 31, are awaiting trial for their role in the escape of Kitas from a private hospital on December 12.
BRAND new walkways, parking spaces and three town squares are part of the planned projects for the transformation of the centre of Larnaca, which is expected to be completed by summer
A fountain will be built at Ermou Square as well as a specially designed roof-covered space to host various events, Larnaca Mayor Andreas Moiseos told the Cyprus Mail yesterday.
TOTAL tourist arrivals in 2008 decreased at 0.5 per cent and 2009 is expected to be another difficult year, the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) said yesterday.
FOUR members of the Korfes Mountain Climbing Association from Nicosia departed yesterday morning for Latin America aiming to conquer the highest peak of the Andean mountain range, the Aconcagua, which is 6,962 metres high.
If all goes well, the four mountaineers Thanasis Kaishiaris, George Andreou, Panayiotis Amira and Daina Miskouri expect to reach the peak on February 11 or 12.
The three animals well fed in the Cypriot tradition
AFTER spending almost 20 years at Limassol Zoo, a family of three leopards will finally get a chance to spend the rest of their lives in better conditions, at the Shamwari Wildlife Reserve in South Africa, operated by the Born Free Foundation.
IN ONE YEAR Cyprus should know whether there are worthwhile reserves of natural gas off its southern coast, a government official said yesterday.
Solon Kassinis, head of the Commerce Ministry’s Energy Department, was referring to Israel’s discovery of large amounts of hydrocarbons in its territorial waters this week.
THE Foreign Ministry’s Director of the Department of Overseas Cypriots, Ambassador Stavros Epaminondas, died of cancer on Monday.
The Cypriot diplomat had felt pains in his stomach and lower back, and he was initially diagnosed with gallstones.
THE parents of 19 children who were evicted from a Nicosia district Day Care Centre last year are relieved the Social Welfare Service has finally rented new premises closer to home.
The new premises are located in Lakatamia, only a five-minute drive from the old Anthoupoli building.
ALL OF A SUDDEN, the country is full of self-taught historians. Politicians, journalists, trade unionists and priests have all been expounding their views about Cyprus’ modern history, with all of them insisting that their own version s the only true account of events.
THE PARENTS of 11 newborns afflicted with Legionnaires’ disease claimed they had never once been contacted by the private Nicosia hospital where their children contracted the bacteria.
“There was no explanation. No apology. Nothing. As strange as that may sound it’s true,” said one of the parents, who wished to remain unnamed.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
